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Financial Controller
£52,744 pa plus excellent benefits
London WC1 and home-based - hybrid with expectation to work at London office 40% of the time
35 hours per week, full-time
Permanent contract
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is seeking an experienced and strategic Financial Controller to oversee the financial management, control and compliance functions of the College.
This is a pivotal leadership role within the Finance team, supporting the College’s mission to improve child health by ensuring strong financial governance, sound reporting, and long-term sustainability. Working closely with the Associate Director of Finance and senior leaders across the organisation, you will take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity and efficiency of all financial operations and reporting processes.
As Financial Controller, you will lead a team of six, overseeing financial control, statutory reporting, payroll, and compliance. You will ensure that robust internal controls are in place, and manage relationships with auditors, banks and investment partners.
This role will suit a qualified accountant with substantial experience in financial management and a collaborative leadership style.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the delivery of accurate and timely month-end and year-end processes, including group consolidations and statutory accounts
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant accounting standards, tax, audit and charity regulations (including SORP)
- Managing internal and external audit processes and acting as primary contact for auditors
- Overseeing payroll, accounts payable and receivable, cash management and treasury functions
- Maintaining and improving financial systems, processes, and internal controls
- Leading, developing and mentoring a team of finance professionals to achieve operational excellence
- Working closely with colleagues across the College to provide financial insight and analysis to support strategic decision-making
- Supporting the budgeting and forecasting cycle and contributing to strategic projects and funding initiatives
Essential skills and experience:
- Degree in finance, accounting or related field, and full professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Minimum of 5–7 years’ experience in financial management, ideally within the nonprofit or public sector
- Proven track record of leading statutory reporting and year-end audit processes, including production of group consolidated accounts
- Experience managing financial operations in a complex organisation, preferably in the charity or healthcare sector
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail
- Advanced Excel and strong working knowledge of financial systems
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels
- Demonstrated leadership experience, with the ability to manage and motivate a high-performing team
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your finance career in a supportive and high-performing team.
The RCPCH has more than 25,000 members and fellows and employs around 200 staff, most of whom work in our London office in Holborn. We have a Devolved Nations team operating from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Our College values: Include, Influence, Innovate and Inspire, are important to us. These values ensure we bring out the best in each other, strive forward together to make the College a positive and dynamic place to work.
The RCPCH champions Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Our workplace is inclusive, offering a supportive environment where staff can thrive. The College is keen to accept applications from people with protected characteristics. We believe that our staff should represent all of the diverse communities we serve. Join us to help realise our vision of a world where every child is healthy and well.
The College operates a flexible and modern working policy, whereby our colleagues work in the office for a minimum of 40% over a 4 week cycle and the remainder from home.
The RCPCH is committed to safeguarding the children, young people and adults it has contact with in the exercise of its functions and responsibilities. The RCPCH expects all staff to share this commitment – we place a high priority on ensuring only those who do so are recruited to work for us.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records.
Closing date: 17 November 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible
Registered Charity
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The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health advocates on child health issues at home and internationally.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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As Finance Director, you will work closely and collaboratively with Amit Sharma (Artistic Director/ CEO) and Iain Goosey (Executive Director), supporting them as they lead Kiln Theatre through a period of transition and growth. As a key member of the Senior Team, the Finance Director will be responsible for Kiln Theatre's financial health and for ensuring that effective controls are in place and that all regulatory requirements are met.
You will lead and manage the Finance department, ensuring that the finance operation at Kiln operates to the highest standards and is effectively embedded within the organisation.
The Finance Director will play a major role in contributing to Kiln Theatre's business planning and strategic development, including identifying opportunities for efficiencies, supporting the resilience of the organisation for the future, ensuring compliance with best practice at all times and helping the company to fulfil its creative and financial ambitions.
The role will work with members of the Board, particularly the Finance & Risk Committee, as well as the external auditors. The Finance Director also oversees the finances for Kiln Theatre Ltd and its two subsidiaries - Tricycle Screen Ltd and Kiln London Productions Limited.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Head of Finance - INGO, London
Charity People are very pleased to be partnering with a growing and forward-thinking circa £9-10million annual turnover international organisation based in London. This is a newly created role.
An exciting time to join this global organisation, where you will be reporting to the CFO and leading and empowering a team of five (UK and USA).
Candidates applying for this role, must have strong experience in Charity SORP, multicurrency, consolidating multiple entities (UK and overseas offices) and experience in Finance system change.
You will be working with a very forward-thinking CFO where you will be given the autonomy to lead and empower a Finance Division.
This is a hybrid role going to London twice a week. The salary offered for this role is between £65,000 - £70,000 per annum plus very generous holidays and investment for your personal development by the organisation. Candidates applying for this role must have recognised CCAB (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) qualifications.
Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 per annum + 7% pension contribution
Hybrid: 2 days a week in London
Some of your main duties are:
- Experience in working in multi-currency and multi-entity environments
- Financial system management and development experience
- Experience in streamlining processes, procedures, and automation
- Treasury management in a multi-currency environment (Banking, investment, foreign exchange, cash flow, financial policies)
- Experience in UK Charity SORP-based production of annual accounts and audits and managing financial returns in US and Belgium jurisdiction
- Lead the production of the annual accounts and acted as key contact to the auditors. Preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with local accounting principles and legal requirements to agreed timelines for all entities.
- Lead on the planning and management of the annual audit process for all entities.
- Ensure all statutory reporting and compliance obligations worldwide are met on a timely basis (including HMRC, Companies House, and the Charity Commission in the UK; federal and local tax returns, the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) 990 return in the US, and any others that may arise).
- Support CFO in the selection of organisation auditor.
- Ensure the budgeting and budget reforecasting process to carryout in timely and accurately.
- Ensure financial management pack is produced and reviewed for Leader Team, board and budget holders on monthly basis.
- Ensure financial risks emanating from all financial activities are highlighted and managed properly.
- Ensure budgets for restricted funding are produced with aim of full cost recovery.
- Ensure financial compliance of internal, statutory and donor requirements are understood, practiced and met by all staff.
- Review financial reports to donors as required.
- Staff management experience
Candidates applying for this role must have the following requirements:
- Senior level management reporting within a small / medium sized organisation
- Experience working within the INGO or NFP sector
- Candidates who have a recognised CCAB Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA)
- Very strong knowledge of Charity SORP
- Experience in Financial system improvement
- Hands on candidate with strong interpersonal skills
- Values driven with strong focus on EDI and leadership skills
Benefits:
Location: My client's office is fully accessible with a lift and accessible toilets on each floor
Pension scheme
Annual leave: 25 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
Additional benefits
- Free health insurance
- Interest free loans on season tickets.
- A tax-free cycle to work scheme.
- Family friendly policies including 26 weeks paid maternity leave and 4 paid days per year for caring responsibilities.
- Pregnancy loss policy
- Period policy
Timelines for the role:
Role will be closing on 24th November, 2025
Interviews will be happening w/c 1st December, 2025 and second interview w/c 8th Decemb2r, 2025
Candidates shortlisted for this role will be required to answer three questions which will be submitted along with the CV.
Charity People is a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background-e.g. age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.